Greatest scenes in TV history

Wow. What a thread. I just went back through it. The first page had me thinking there was an over-emphasis on recent programming. But the classics are nailed down pretty well. Though I hesitate to put recent programming into the same class as something like the MASH finale, I'd say a few of the Friday Night Lights scenes deserve high praise.

By the way, To Market, To Market is now starting on TV Land. This is the second MASH episode. It followed the pilot.

In fact, it appears that TV Land is running from the beginning except that it somehow didn't include the pilot before showing To Market, To Market. Tomorrow you get the third and fourth episodes, and it seems to keep going like that. The 11 p.m. EST episode was the one right before the farewell. By the way, it appears that the farewell episode celebrates its 25th birthday this Friday.

 

A couple from Cheers:

The beard growing contest ---- when Cliff calls the adhesive company to see what he'll need to do to remove his fake beard.

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One of the prank episodes with Gary's Old Town Tavern where they convince Sam that Gary is dead. Only to have him walk out at the end.

 

Here's some classic scenes from one of the all-time great shows -- "I Love Lucy"

Lucy and Ethel in the chocolate factory:

Lucy's "vitameatavegamin." It's so tasty, too. Just like candy. *pucker*:

Lucy and Harpo Marx:

 

Speaking of St. Elsewhere (and Newsradio)
Skip to 4:00 minute mark

 

Win a date with Johnny Fever was a different episode.

 

Three of my faves:

Friends - PIVOT!!!

The Wire - The "Fuck" Scene with McNulty and Bunk, season one.

Fraiser - The "suit or sweater" episode where his two paths diverge... then the final scene where they come back together in the car... a great metaphor for life, I believe.

 

Right.
Venus was hanging with The Who, and Johnny waited too long to ask Bailey, so he wound up going with Carlson and Little Arthur.

 

There's a reason this was unquestionably the best TV show of the 1990s.

First off, this is an incredible recut by someone with too much time on their hands. A fusion of episodes 18 and 20 of season 1, with flashbacks.

Secondly, some very powerful stuff here.

Thirdly, watch what happens when Greene tells the father (Whitford) about his wife's death. He's in a rocking chair, and that simple prop adds incredibly to the emotion.

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I mentioned that in my first post back on page 1, but I agree totally with you about it being one of the best episodes. This was one of the first ER episodes I watched, and I still remember calling my mom afterward and we told each other how blown away we were by the powerfulness of the show.

 

The yearly Bar Wars episodes were some of the funniest, especially the one when Sam recruits Kevin McHale to play for his team.

 

I know there have been several references to The West Wing on this thread, but the one that always get me is the funeral scene for the homeless veteran from the first Christmas episode. when Toby and Mrs. Landingham (who we just learned lost her two sons in Vietnam) flinch during the 21 gun salute, well, it just feels really powerful to me.

 

One of my favorite West Wing episodes was the one with the elderly senator filibustering the budget bill because there wasn't any money in it for autism research. The president's advisers can't figure out why the senator is filibustering it, until they see him on the TV news with his autistic grandson. The advisers then call in other senators to ask the elderly senator questions to buy time to fit the autism money in the spending bill.

 

I saw the one the other day where they rig the satellite at Gary's to show An Evening of Poetry With Clifford C. Clavin and Norman Peterson instead of some big fight.